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Monday, 30 May 2011

Helictotrichon pubescens - Downy Oat-grass

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Grass of the Month for May 2011                 Downy Oat-grass is one of my favourite grasses It flowers early in the...
Saturday, 21 May 2011

Hordelymus europaeus - Wood Barley

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Grass of the Month for April Tweet This is a rare woodland grass. (  BSBI Map  ) Hordelymus euroapeaus has vegetative features very sim...
Saturday, 7 May 2011

£1 a day for food

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So how is my living off £1-00 a day for food going? http://www.livebelowtheline.org.uk/ Here is the food I bought for five days:- 2   50...
Friday, 6 May 2011

Spring Plants

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I went for a walk/jog beside the River Ribble down to the Locks and up to Stainforth Foss. there is some hawthorn coming out below my house,...

The Royal Wedding - William and Catherine

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Every Newspaper has featured the royal wedding - so here is this blog editor's contribution.  Settle got bedecked ready to have a s...
Thursday, 28 April 2011

Settle sparkles with blue and red bunting for the wedding.

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Today is very sunny. Settle market place is looking great with the blue red and white union jack bunting out.

More Early Flowering Grasses and Flowers

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Tomorrow I am travelling by train down to Juniper Hall near Box Hill to teach a Grasses Identification Weekend. So today I went to near th...
Wednesday, 27 April 2011

More First Flowering Times April 27th

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I saw a couple of hawthorn trees on Skipton Bypass out -- then nothing much till Ripon bypass where there were a lot of hawthorn trees in bl...
Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Early Flowering Times This Spring

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Around here the day that the trees start to show green (so I tell people) is 17th April and the day that they are fully green is 17th May (o...
Saturday, 23 April 2011

£1 a day for food for 5 days - Live Below the Line Challenge

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Could you live off just £1 a day for five days?  Join the  livebelowtheline  challenge - 2-6 May ( Find out more ) Become aware of how much ...
Friday, 22 April 2011

Settle Passion Play - Journey to the Cross - on Good Friday

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 Pictures from the Passion Play "Journey to the cross" at Settle this Good Friday morning. Singing the fi...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

BBS British Bryological Society - Mosses Week 7-13 April

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The British Bryological Society are meeting this week based at Scargill House, Kettlewell 7-13 April. I am going out with them most days. Gr...
Saturday, 2 April 2011

Opal Lichens Settle

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I ran a lichens morning for Craven Conservation Group today (2nd April). After saying for a year "We must record some trees for the Opa...
Saturday, 26 March 2011

Motives for Environmental Care

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Today I attended a conference in Leeds organised by WYSOCS (West Yorkshire School of Christian Studies): the Gospel's Green Light: Moti...

Mosses-3 of Giggleswick Churchyard

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On Thursday 24 March I went round to Giggleswick Church to make an exhibition of the photos I had taken at the Mosses Day on 12th March. You...

End of Life Issues - The Hospice Movement

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Churches Together in Settle and District have organised a series of Talks on Wednesday evenings during Lent. entitled "Facing up to End...